“Max, take the newspaper and tell me a page number.” Mattias looks at me with a broad grin, like a magician before his best trick. I told him a number and he began reciting the content on the entire page, the headlines, the details in the text, even the names of the photographers mentioned below the photos in fine print.

Mattias noticed that I was very much blown away and enticed me: “This is no witchcraft, Max. Everyone can learn this and now I’ll teach you how…”

Mattias Ribbing is a bestselling Swedish book author, beloved speaker at a multitude of events, a great musician and an acclaimed Grandmaster of Memory. More than that, he is considered one of the best memories and brightest minds in the world.

Mattias and I spoke already several times at the same event including theBulletproof Biohacking Conference in Los Angeles and the Biohacker Summit in London but we really got to know each other when we randomly sat next to each other on a flight from London to Austin, Texas, to attend the Paleo f(x) Conference (you know you’re having a connection when the passenger row in front of you starts complaining to the flight attendants).

In this very inspiring episode, Mattias and I discuss the advantages of the ketogenic diet before competitions, why he is excited about living in the countryside, what the term Biohacking means to him and how our memory really works. He also shares a powerful visualization technique that everybody can use in order to boost memory while reading anything.

The video of this episode is a bit bumpy but the audio is fantastic. That’s why I would recommend listening. If you are struggling remembering things in your everyday life, then this episode will be a true gem for you.

Enjoy!

SHOW NOTES

1:41 – How Mattias and I randomly sat next to each other on a long-haul flight

3:10 – Mattias explains his trick to remember two newspapers at the same time

6:50 – Why reading somethings twice over doesn’t work

9:35 – What the term Biohacking means to Mattias

16:40 – How Mattias uses the ketogenic diet to prepare for memory competitions

21:11 – An explanation for the optimal way of thinking

24:59 – A memorization technique to remember every page in a book

30:34 – How experiences can help with learning

34:03 – Learning math using visualization methods

41:05 – How disturbances in your environment can help you train getting into the flow state